LORD GEORGE ARCHIBALD DOUGLAS.
? At the beautiful chapel attached to the monastery of the Discalcea Carmelites in Kensington, on Monday, 1 2th June, a small but very select and aristocratic company of Roman Catholics assisted at what was to them an event of unusual interest. Lord Charles George Archibald Douglas, the only brother, and, we believe, the heir presumptive of the Duke of Hamilton, has become a Catholic priest, and on Monday at the Carmelite Chapel, he sang his first solemn high mass. The ceremony was attended with much pomp. The robes of the noble priest and his deacon and sub-deacon were of the most gorgeous description, and the music, as it always is at the chapel, was superb. Lord Archibald Douglas was born in 1847. He was educated at Eton. He was appointed a cornet I in the 11th Hussars in 1866, and he ! was aide-de-camp to Baron Napier of Magdala during the Abyssinian war. He was the son of the eleventh Duke of Hamilton and of the Princess Mary, daughter of the Grand Duke of Baden and cousin t o Napoleon 111. His voice is sonorous and musical, and he sang the mass with great expression.
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Evening Post, Volume XIV, Issue 49, 26 August 1876, Page 1 (Supplement)
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198LORD GEORGE ARCHIBALD DOUGLAS. Evening Post, Volume XIV, Issue 49, 26 August 1876, Page 1 (Supplement)
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